Islamic Golden Age
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The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, dated from the 8th century CE to the 14th century.
Al-Biruni
Ibn al-Nafis
Avicenna
Averroes
Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, th
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets
al-Biruni's explanation of the phases of the moon
Quince, cypress, and sumac trees, in Zakariya al-Qazwini's 13th century Wonders of Creation
Modern copy of al-Idrisi's 1154 Tabula Rogeriana, upside-down, north at top